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APRIL 28, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXI • NO 10
14th Annual EPC Golf Outing Will Benefit Good Samaritan Services BY COURTNEY MENGEL
In 2002, Good Samaritan Services (GSS) purchased its first property in Phoenixville, where it was able to serve five people at a time. Nineteen years later, GSS has acquired 13 different properties and can serve 200 people every day. GSS came to the Lancaster County area in 2011 after opening an emergency shelter in Ephrata, which provides housing for women and children.
GSS provides a full continuum of care to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Some of the services offered by GSS include eviction prevention, emergency shelter, traditional housing, affordable housing, and permanent housing services across Lancaster and Chester counties. The organization’s end goal is to empower people to feel confident and capable enough to maintain their own safe and stable housing.
Octorara Intermediate School sixth-graders (from left) Abby Tuel, Saralynn Smucker, Ryan McLoughlin, Sawyer Grocki, Riley Miller and Mary Flowers display the tote bags they created for the Philadelphia Zoo’s UNLESS competition.
See Golf Outing pg 9
Octorara Named A Finalist In Philadelphia Zoo Contest BY FRANCINE FULTON
ifth- and sixth-grade students in Christine Gray’s class at Octorara Intermediate School (OIS) recently learned that the project they completed to benefit the endangered Humboldt penguins is a finalist in the Philadelphia Zoo’s UNLESS competition. Now in its ninth year, the contest asks students to create real solutions to current environmental issues. The name is based on a
Octorara Intermediate School fifth-graders (from left) Dallas Kittlitz, Jordyn Nuse, Thomas Donovan, (not pictured) Lauren Bierlein, Cheyenne Charlyon, Gwen Clymer and Dorothy Wak designed and sold tote bags as part of a fundraiser for Humboldt penguins, an endangered animal.
class should be incredibly proud to be a finalist,” the letter stated. “We especially loved how you focused on providing a sustainable, reusable alternative to plastic bags. Congratulations on a phenomenal project.” The letter also invited the class to attend the virtual UNLESS Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 6, where the winners will be announced. The students registered for the competition in early October 2020 and were then provided with five animals to choose from - the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, the monarch butterfly, the golden lion tamarin, the Humboldt penguin and the Rodrigues fruit bat. After a school-wide vote, the OIS students selected the Humboldt penguin. The Humboldt penguin, a species that is native to South America, is currently endangered. Roughly 12,000 Humboldts are at risk of losing their habitat because of overfishing, climate change and invasive species.
Although this year’s spring musical will not be open to the public because of the pandemic, Octorara Junior-Senior High School students will present “Grease: School Edition” to a limited audience. “We will be performing to a live audience, but it is limited to family and friends of cast and crew members. Tickets are not available for purchase,” explained director Joe Lynch,
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On hand at the 2020 EPC Golf Outing during a donation from $3,000 presenting sponsor Alwine Security to GSS were (from left) EPC representatives Lauren Hillegas, Jeremy Engle, and Jocelyn Engle; Alwine Security owner Jamie Alwine; Nate Hoffer, CEO of GSS; and Derek Sanders and Matt Rhoads of Alwine.
Students To Perform Play For Family And Friends
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quote from Dr. Seuss: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” For their project, the student group, known as the Penguineers, designed and sold 50 reusable tote bags and 152 stickers to staff members and students, raising more than $455 in total from the sales and donations. Each blue bag featured the message, “Reach out a hand to a flipper in need.” Students learned that their project was a finalist through an email that Gray received on April 13. “We were extremely impressed by your project. Over 5,000 students in over 200 classes participated in the contest this year. Your